Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-09-07
BLooDY TRAGEDY.
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 Another act in the Tonto Basin trag- edy vas enacted at Holbrook, on Sun- day afseruoon, in s-hich Sheriff Owens brought to earth four of the Tonto Ba- sin gang of russlers. Particulars in re gard to the affair are mesger, but are to the effect that Owens attempted to ar ret Andy Cooper, the most desperate character q the GrshAm faction. That he vas resisted by Cooper and his two bsothers, and . man named Roberts, formerly in the employ of the Ar.ec Cattle company. Cooper was shot through the bowels and. it was thought, could not live until morning. His youngest brother, nssmed Blevins, about nineteen yeaEs old.
 FILL DEAD Cx fHE SPOT. John Blsvins received slight wound in the side under the arm. Roberts is also supposed to b mortslly wounded. having been shot through the lungs. Owens made the fight single-handed at asout sixty or seventy yards range. The aAaif occurred near the Blevins rssidence, and during its progress Mrs. Blevins, mother oi Cooper and the Blevins boys. snat:hcd up revolver and. handing it to her youngest con. remarked, "these they are trying to asEess your broshsr, 90 out and shoot thsm-. Yoang Blsvins did as told by his mother, but no sooner had be put in an appearance within range of Ovens's gun than | we'll aimed shot from it perforated the young mans body, and he fell dessd
 Andy Cooper, alnss Blevins. has the reputation of being one of
 THE MOST DEsPKziATE CHARACTERS In the territory, and has frequently boastsd that he would never submit 10 arrest without light He was suspect cd of numerous crimes, among the number was that of being an accessory, ct least, if not one ed the principals, in the murder of Samu uel s. Shall. Sus- picion pointed strongl. to him and his brother, Hamilton Blevins, who was killed q tho fight at the Newton ranch, e being tho perpetrators of this bloody murder The whoIe family seems to be enc of desperadoes and rustlers, and within the last month three of them, the father and twD sons, have been planted beneath the sol of Arizona, and should Cooper's death ensue. as an ticipated, he will make the fourth, leav- ing but one boy alive. who is married. After the death of the old man and Hamilton, Andy Cooper and John Blevins moved their mother and the lstter's wife to Holbrook to live Cooper was in Pieas,nt valley when the sherif's party left, and must have left immediately after they did to get to Holbrook by Sunday.
 Roberts, one of the party wounded, was formerly in the employ of the Az ecCastle company. and was one of the i've who preferred to take bis time and mooey due from that company and quit their employ rather than "stand in" with them in favor of law and order, when requested by MT. Simpson. assist ant manager of tho company. Oi the i've vho quit their employ .. the time. one, John Payne, has been killed, and four-Carrington, Tucker, Gillespie and Roberts-have teen wounded more or lsss seriously.
 ANDY cooi'RR DEAD.
 Information vas received to-day. un- der date of September 9th. which gives fuEthn particular tf the tragedy, which states that Owens attempted to arrest Cooper as the residl.nce of his mother, Nm. Blevins. Cooper resisted and was shot e above dcsclibed. Roberts then went out, and w's shot by Sheriff Owens, when young Blevins, e directed by his mother, shot at Owens, and was killed by the latter. John Blivens next tired his luck, and received wound which is considered more dangerous than st 6rst reported. Andy Cooper died yesterday morning, and Roberts sas not expected to live through the day yesterday, vhih John Blevins, the last ot the family, is s,lsngrrously wound cd. although his recovery is possible.